il campionato purtroppo sfumo' sul filo di lana, resto' la grande soddisfazione di portare a Roma il primo vero trofeo europeo (non come la "coppa delle fiere", per intenderci...)
A disgrace this competition was discontinued. Gave ‘smaller’ teams the chance to show that European football is not all about money. Villa Park’s pitch looks great. You can’t even cut the grass nicely because of VAR. Disgraceful I like the old days but in fairness to UEFA the introduction of the Nations League at international level and the Conference League at club level are important to give other clubs and Nations to show the quality they have.
For me the 90s were the best. A champions with 16 teams, and the rest for the UEFA Cup and Cup of Cups. Three competitions that would honor any club. I don't agree with the Conference League and the next Europa League model that will theoretically lose 12 strong teams (with the expansion of the champions and the fact that none of them will go down to the Europa League). In those times, the little ones could impose themselves among the big ones, but now the little ones only play with the little ones and that, for me, is a bad image given to football
Riddle me this..if Parma won uefa cup 1999..then how come ManUtd facing lazio for uefa supercup 1999??..what the hell happened back then??.. (1999)UCL:ManUtd (1999)Uefacup:Parma
That comes from the importance the CWC once had. It was simply more important than the UEFA Cup. It lost it's importance in the mid to late 90s when the Champions League was expanded to more teams than just the Champions.
MrNoodleArms is right. When there were three UEFA competitions (European Cup, Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Cup) the CWC was above the UEFA Cup in terms of hierarchy, so the UEFA Supercup was contested between the winners of the European Cup/Champions League and the winners of the Cup Winners' Cup.
@@semmel7528 only one thing. Rating of CWC was lost in late 80s-early 90s. UEFA Cup have better teams, cause in most European countries national cups became less popular and was won by teams from lower places in league or even from lower divisions. UEFA Cup as opposed have teams that placed 2-3 in their national leagues (plus 4-5 places from top-3 leagues in UEFA coefficient ranking). So it was like UCL today. It’s even became more interesting then Champions Cup in that moment. So UEFA start reforming eurocups from that point starting from Champions Cup and presenting group stage in 1991/92 season because of it.
